Ray Charles "I Can't Stop Loving You" reaches #1 1962

Ray Charles's cover of Don Gibson's I Can't Stop Loving You reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and remained there for five weeks, making it one of the biggest hits of 1962.  It also went to #1 on the Billboard R&B Singles, Adult Contemporary, and the UK Singles Chart.

Billboard ranked it the #2 song for 1962.  Rolling Stone ranked it as #164 of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. CMT ranked it as #49 on the 100 Greatest Songs in Country Music. 

Ray Charles won the Grammy Award for Best Rhythm & Blues Recording in 1963.

5th Grammy Awards held 1963

May 15, 1963 was a busy day.  Not only was Gordon Cooper launched in Faith 7 on the Mercury-Atlas 9 mission, but the fifth annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held.

Tony Bennett won three awards.  Tony won Record of the Year, Best Solo Vocal Performance, Male, and Best Background Arrangement for his recording of I Left My Heart in San Francisco.

Henry Mancini won Best Instrumental Arrangement for Baby Elephant Walk, and Best Engineering Contribution - Other Than Novelty and Other Than Classical for engineer Al Schmitt for Hatari!, for which Mancini wrote the music.

Ella Fitzgerald won Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female for Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson.

Ray Charles won Best Rhythm & Blues Recording for I Can't Stop Loving You.

Alley Cat by Bent Fabric won Best Rock and Roll Recording.